Racist ‘Willie Horton’-style fearmongering on crime may win midterms for GOP

inquirer ^ | 10/02/2022 | Will Bunch

[ChicagoConservative27]

When the midterm election winds shifted direction this summer toward Democrats, powered by a gust of anger among young women voters over the Supreme Court and abortion rights, no incumbent GOP U.S. senator looked in worse shape than Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson.

Johnson had already broken a promise to retire in 2022 — which would have spared him from defending a cargo hold full of political baggage from dumb climate denial to his seeming love for Mother Russia — even before his name got dragged into the probe of the Jan. 6 insurrection. As the fall campaign loomed in a state that President Joe Biden won, albeit narrowly, in 2020, polls showed Johnson running several points behind his young, gifted, and Black Democratic opponent, Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes.

[mware]

Yeah funny how that worked out. My folks voted for him too.

[mware]

LOL, yep got to stock up on Potassium Iodine.

[dynachrome]

Speaking the truth is ray-ciss.

[PapaBear3625]

For Wisconsin, we have the Waukesha Christmas parade massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waukesha_Christmas_parade_attack#Suspect

Kenosha riots
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenosha_unrest

And LOTS AND LOTS of other things to bring up to make Democrat rule look terrible

[dead]

That article is just a string of dopey leftist talking points strung randomly together and masquerading as an article. Comically insipid.

[cgbg]

I love the sound of lefty commentators howling “whitelash” the day after an election.

It sounds like victory.

;-)

[Shady]

All I need to read is the headline. We are living in a psychotic world.

[jjotto]

Al Gore

[SaxxonWoods]

So what?

[Signalman]

There is only ONE Willie Horton! (The ballplayer).

Whenever I hear the name "Tony Bobulinski" who was on Tucker the other night, I'm reminded of pitcher who played for the new American League team circa 1962, the Los Angeles Angels, Bo Belinsky.

[AndyTheBear]

There is a malicious wisdom in bringing up such an old complaint. Those not old enough to know what it was about might be fooled into thinking it must have been something bad on the Republican side whatever it was.

[EEGator]

Reality is racist!...

[Sir_Humphrey]

It’s Will “Panties-in-a” Bunch. He writes this article every 2-3 years. He just changes the names and dates. Guess what? He will write the same article in 2024.

[allblues]

Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in many decades.

[Charlemagne on the Fox]

“I was told if I voted for Goldwater, we’d have riots in the streets and get into a long unwinnable war. Well I voted for Goldwater, and darn if they weren’t right.”

Comment of the day!

[allblues]

You, sir, are much too kind.

[JonPreston]

I remember Bo Belinsky. He was almost great but the nightlife got him.

[glennaro]

I remember very well that Algore’s daddy was one of the more vocal leaders of the Democrat’s savage opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and he proudly voted against it. The only reason it passed. giving the racist LBJ a huge political victory, was that the Republican Party put the legislation over the top ... as being a strong bloc for civil rights for all Americans, they should have.

[Paleo Conservative]

What was racist about the Willie Horton ads? They were the truth! And guess who first mentioned Willie Horton in the 1988 presidential election. It wasn’t anyone in the George H W Bush campaign. It was Al Gore during the Democrat primaries!

[al_c]

This is nothing but good, old-fashioned projecting by the left ... as usual. They are the most fear-mongering party on the face of the earth.